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Help with Car Wrecks Due to Car Defects in Houston
What is crashworthiness or the so-called second collision doctrine? A vehicle's crashworthiness refers to the protection it provides passengers against personal injury or death as a result of a car wreck. In the legal context, crashworthiness imposes liability based on the construction or design of a product which causes enhanced or greater injuries in the course of or following an initial car wreck. Basically, did the automobile perform adequately in the car wreck? Did the automobile adequately protect the occupants? These are questions which are directly related to crashworthiness litigation especially for wrongful death.
Cause and Prevention: Car Wrecks
One purpose of crashworthiness litigation is to promote the safer design and manufacture of automobiles. Everyone knows that car wrecks happen. Some times, accidents are unavoidable due to ice, wet roads, or other driving hazards. Since it is impossible to prevent all car wrecks, it is important that your automobile be designed safely to protect you and your precious cargo. The Matthews & Fullmer Law Firm believes that it is the duty of automobile manufacturers to design and manufacture vehicles free of defects and to provide a safe passenger compartment for occupants of the vehicle.
Crashworthiness cases have taken many forms, but nearly all of them focus on one of four basic areas of automobile design: (1) the structural integrity of the car's body; (2) the presence of occupant friendly surfaces in the passenger compartment; (3) the ability of the vehicle to safely restrain passengers; and (4) fuel system integrity (which generally relates to the design and manufacture of the vehicle's fuel system). An example of each type of case is listed below:
| structural integrity: | defective tires, door latches, roof structures, instability |
| interior design: | defective interior padding, seat design, headrests, seatbelts, airbags |
| fuel system integrity: | defective fuel tank location, fuel tank material, fuel lines, etc. |
Experienced Car Wreck Lawyers in Houston
The Houston firm of Matthews & Fullmer has handled hundreds of crashworthiness cases and the firm's founding partner, Doug Matthews, has authored numerous articles and has given several seminar lectures on the subject of crashworthiness litigation. Considered a pioneer in the field of crashworthiness litigation by many, Doug Matthews has successfully handled cases against major automobile manufacturers for more than 30 years including unfortunately wrongful death cases.
Injured in a car wreck due to a defective vehicle?
To learn more about Matthews & Fullmer Law Firm's results in crashworthiness lawsuits, click here, or Email us or call 800.899.3352 toll free.
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